Haxe Roundup 701

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Community Updates

News and Articles

• IntelliJ IDEA Haxe plugin version 1.4.25 has been released. ️
• LDtk 1.5 finally released (lots of optimizations, global search, biome system, quality of life changes) LDtk.
• 🔑Dwellings 1.3.0: elevation and improved rooms by Oleg Dolya.
• Armory3D: An Accessible Game Development Engine article by Game Crafting Hub.
• Converting programming languages to and from Haxe code thread.
• Heaps and LDtk both featured in Game Bytes: January 2024 article from GitHub.
• LDtk 1.5 Released article and video by GameFromScratch.

Devlogs

• Week One, Two and Three of Urban Forest devlogs from Eric | ZwodahS.
• E-Corp Intergalatic Almanac: The Fronkey article from Minicology.
• Funkin Minecraft devlog tidbit on memory stats.
• Northgard set of patchnotes for 11/01/2024, 15/01/2024 & 16/01/2024.
• Wartales 24/01/2024 patch notes.

Videos & Music

• Adding Noughts & Crosses: Making TicTacToe Game Using Armory3D Part 3.
• Armory3D Lesson 05 - Arrays video.
• Armory3D Lesson 06 - Working With Arrays video.
• Haxeflixel RPG Game Tutorial | Part 1.
• HxGodot, Statecharts & Debug-Visualization video. ️
• Many cool materials with physical & audio properties now in HxGodot. ️
• Reminder that Squidly does a Haxe dev stream every weekday on Twitch. 6pm EST -> 12am EST Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday. 12pm EST -> 6pm EST Thursday/Friday.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Available for work

• You can hire Tim Hely, a highly experienced Haxe & HaxeFlixel developer, with 20+ years of experience!
• Alex Johansson is looking for a part time/contractor role.
• Rudy Geslin is available for freelance work.

Job listings

• None.

Bounties

• Armory3D bounties are available.
• Keep an eye on the Funkin Bounties repo for future items.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases

• Luc Vauvillier has released Gadsme Connect Paris 2024 made with Ceramic engine. Play to try and win tickets to the Olympic Games in Paris. ️
• Eric | ZwodahS has created a Steam store page for their new game - Urban Forest. Next target - Public demo by April!

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• Ultimate Connect 4 - A normal connect 4-clone, besides the fact that you have to connect four connect 4 game wins in a row to win.

Via Haxe Discord server

• Hide nightlies are back. via Rudy.hx. ️
• Josh Tynjala added two new chapters to the OpenFL Developer’s Guide: Using the TextField class and Working with Sound.

Git Repos

• Go2hx using hxb results in a 4x speed up build speed improvement. Updated go2hx hxb speed performance results.
• [lix.client] Support hxb issue.
• haxeget 0.2.1 has been released.
• heaps-gltf git - gltf parser for heaps.io.
• spiel-web git - The official web app for Spiel Messenger.
• olib_logging git - Logging library for Haxe.
• olib_model git - Haxe models for your every needs.
• Geometry-Dash-R git - A reimagined version of Geometry Dash built using the Haxe programming language.
• hx-fivem-template git - Starter template to use Haxe in FiveM.
• hxstb_image git - Haxe/hxcpp `@:native`` bindings for STB Image.
• Blueprint git - Blueprint is a Game Framework made in Haxe that compiles to native platforms using hxcpp.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Antriel is optimizing the collision polygons in Fantasy Sphere Mini.
• Menu, level editor, particles, doors, and more updates from Gogoprog for his raycasted game.
• New quick videos from Starfox remake by SnkyGames:
  • Object pooling: Vector3Ds and animation tweens.
  • Gamedev proud moment testing on a low-end device.
• New GIFs from Jitter Sandbox by Syo:
  • A mining station in the asteroid belt.
  • Some kind of asteroid protection system?
• New GIFs from Renaine!
  • When you try to be fancy.
  • You hit me, I drill u.
  • [wip] Drew a lil world map.
  • [wip] Since aine transforms when she warps… might as well make the whole book transform when you select a warp point, right?

Via the Haxe Discord server

• NutBoi showcasing editor they’re making with HaxeUI.
• Spitko been working on a tile map editor to add to their toolbox.
• Sweepminer showcase:
  • Further work on platform graphics + misc additions to terrain & pit warning indicator.
  • Cave graphics.
  • Overhauled main menu.

Some Library Releases

• flixel-text-input 2.0.2
• uncastled 0.0.1
• hxvlc 1.2.0
• input2action 0.7.0
• olib_model 1.0.0
• olib_semver 1.0.0
• datachannel 1.0.1
• pony 1.9.7
• colyseus 0.15.3
• hxAwsSdk 0.0.4
• ldtk-haxe-api 1.5.3-rc.1
• hxstb_image 0.1.0
• deepnightLibs 1.0.80
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Axol Studio is a small independent game development studio, making games with and contributing to HaxeFlixel.
• Funkin’ Crew is making Friday Night Funkin’, a cartoon rhythm gaming excellence.
• Patrick is creating Raspberry Pi 4 support for Haxe/Lime/OpenFL/HaxeFlixel.
• Josh Tynjala is working on Feathers UI — open source, cross-platform UI components built with OpenFL.
• Pavel Alexandrov is primarily contributing to the Heaps engine and is the creator of format-tiled library.
• Ian Harrigan is working on primarily HaxeUI, as well as hxArduino & hxWebSockets.
• Kaelan Evans is working on HxDoom, a Haxe adaption of Doom.
• Richard Oliver Bray is teaching people the things he’s learnt, like React, Typescript and Haxe.
• Alexander Gordeyko is developing Pony, a Haxe open-cross-library.
• Andy Li is working around the Haxe ecosystem: CI, packaging, docs and learning materials.
• Kevin Leung is creating open source software libraries.
• Robert Konrad, the Kha author, is creating Programming Toolkits.
• OpenFL is creating free open source software.
• HaxeUI is creating an open source user interface libraries.
• HaxeFlixel is creating an open source, cross platform 2D game engine.
• Slava Ra is creating improvements for FlashDevelop and HaxeDevelop.
• Mark Knol is working on Haxe and its documentation.
• Dan Korostelev is working on the Haxe compiler.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Additional syntax for safe navigation discussion.
• Add support for Typed metadata proposal.
• Add support for Extension of Abstracts proposal.
• Add Shading proposal with alt macro solution.
• Add package alias proposal.
• Add Integer data types proposal.
• Add Trailing Block Expressions proposal.
• Add Caller Tracking proposal.
• Add Traits proposal.
• Add Constructor this.arg syntax proposal.
• Add new syntax for getters & setters inspired by the C# property syntax proposal.
• Add a type for meaningless values (similar to unit type) proposal.
• Add better Overload Support proposal.
• Add Static Extension Meta Functions proposal.
• Add enum abstract over enum proposal, plus clarification.
• Add Enum abstract instances proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

34~ updates have been made to Haxe since the last issue.

• DCE cleanup 2024 merged.
• [jvm] sys.io.File.read is a huge performance trap issue.
• [hxb] --hxb-lib vs. -cp vs. --java-lib issue.
• [hxb] Delayed expression typing fixed.
• Asynchronous IO api thoughts & notes.
• Definite assignment analysis for if-cases and while-loops fail to conclude that value is initialized before usage issue.
• [hxb] Future compatibility discussion.
• Hxb: The Haxe Binary Format merged. ️